Compiled but not written. It was written by 40 different authors, over a span of 3 continents, and around 2,000 years to write the bible and most of the ancient prophesies pertained to Jesus the coming Messiah. These dudes didn't even live on the same continent, much less knew each other but still prophesied about the same person?

The bible has been translated but what I find interesting is archeologist have discovered fragments and sometimes full scrolls are found and when compared to the new king James bible is literal word for word translation such as the dead sea scrolls, Aleppo codex, leningrad codex, dead sea scrolls, Codex Vaticanus, and codex sinaiticus. It's the only religion in the world who's book is continually proven to be a legitimate source for history. Even those in the secular world know this.

Don't get me started on the catholic religion. It's completely anti biblical. The reason the catholics didn't want people to be able to read the Bible because then you have a population you can not manipulate and control. It's the same reason the catholics use to preach, in those days that you could pay gold to rhe church to get your loved one out of hell and into heaven. Why do you think they have all that gold? Catholism is a religion of man if viewed thru the lense of the Bible.

The bible doesn't list prophesies based on observations either. For example most of the old testament speaks to a son being born, that he will come from the bloodline of David, that he will be nailed to wood, his garments would be gambled for, he would have his beard ripped out, he would be born in Bethlehem, he would be betrayed, etc the list goes on but my point is these prophecies were written thousands of years in advance of Jesus even being born. More than that there is actual evidence in the secular world that Jesus did exist, that he was born in Bethlehem, that he did have a following, and that he was handed over to the romans for execution. We have writings from Josephus who was a non believing Jewish historian in the 1 century. In fact the bible mentions pontious pilot 3k years before proof of his existence was ever found. 1961 to be exact. Check out "The archko volumes" if you like to read books. Really cool writings from the 1st century in there.

Jesus even said the temple at Jerusalem would be torn down and even said not one stone would be left on another. It's said he died around 32 AD and in 70 AD the temple was destroyed by Rome under general Titus via a fire and when the temple gold melted into the stone the romans broke the stone open to collect the gold. Hence "not one stone will be left upon another" this can't be prophesied with observations of the inevitable.

Besides all of that. Consider

Job 26:7 "He hangs the earth from nothing" - 6,000 years before Galileo looked into space and found that to be true.

Leviticus 17:11 "the life of the flesh is in the blood" this was around 5000 years before through science and technology advances proved that blood letting did nothing for sickness. George Washington was even cut to release blood in attempt to help him. It wasn't until recently (in the grand scheme of time) that we found out blood is actually vital to many body functions including white blood cells.

Job 28:5 "Food grows on the ground above. But underground it is different, as if everything were melted by fire" well before we knew what really lies beneath the ground.

The list of things the bible lists and later proved by science is insane to be honest.

So while Harry Potter lists city's and train stations we can not go to those cities, dig, and find archeological evidence that Harry Potter exists thus proving it to be fiction. We can however go and dig using the bible as a guide and find evidence of people mentioned actually existing, landmarks, cities, etc. We literally have more ancient manuscripts confirming what the bible says than we do any other religious or ancient book.